History Main / TreasureChestCavity

* In ''[[Literature/JackRyan Without Remorse]]'' by TomClancy, part of the plot involves gangsters smuggling drugs from Asia into the US in the bodies of dead soldiers being shipped home from Vietnam. This was definitely TruthInTelevison.
* In the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' novels, [[http://magiccards.info/fvr/en/6.html Karn the silver golem]] (now [[http://magiccards.info/nph/en/1.html golem planeswalker]]) has a Hammerspace cavity in his chest within which he stores a massive assortment of super-powerful doomsday artifacts called the Legacy, [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=skyshaper&v=card&s=cname some of them]] nearly as large as himself. He's also one of the Legacy artifacts himself. He could ''also'' also plug himself into [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=weatherlight&v=card&s=cname a flying ship]] which was another part of the Legacy to activate [[http://magiccards.info/ap/en/137.html the super-scary doomweapon]], before he absorbed ''the whole ship'' into his chest compartment.

* In ''[[Literature/JackRyan Without Remorse]]'' by TomClancy, part of the plot involves gangsters smuggling drugs from Asia into the US in the bodies of dead soldiers being shipped home from Vietnam.
** This was definitely TruthInTelevison.

* [[MadBomber Nice Hollystone]] of {{Baccano}} keeps an extra cherry bomb in her [EyepatchOfPower empty eye socket.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the [[ArtifactOfDoom Hougyoku]] was hidden inside Rukia's soul.

* On ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', The [[McGuffin Yin Jojo]] (or was it Yan?) was hidden inside Dojo's Ear.

* In one season of ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' the McGuffin is a computer chip holding some valuable video, which it turns out was surgically implanted under the skin of one of the terrorists. As he is dying he tells Jack Baur of its location, and Baur cuts it out of him.

* In a ''SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' episode based upon "The Five Orange Pips", a dangerous weapon is concealed inside the chamber of a man's artificial heart, and Prof. Moriarty seeks to retrieve it. Subverted in that said weapon is by then quite old and worth more as a museum piece than a tool of destruction.

* In ''Film/DaimondsAreForever'', Bond uses the dead body of diamond smuggler Peter Franks to smuggle diamonds through customs.

* In ''{{Morrowind}}'' PlayerCharacter can come across a quest named “Rabinna's Inner Beauty” in which you have to escort a slave. If you treat her kindly she reveals that her former master hid a portion of moon sugar inside of her to smuggle it to the city and a man you escort her to will kill her to get it out. You can either help her or let her be killed.

* Bender of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' can hide all kinds of stuff inside his robot body.

* TruthInTelevision with drug mules who swallow their illicit cargos or shove them up their rectums in plastic bags to elude searches.

* One of the most basic uses of fleshcrafting discipline in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade.''

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" we learn that [[hottip:Morn:(a LivingProp who became [[EnsembleDarkhorse quite popular]] dispite being a background character who never had a line of dialogue - he was an uncredited extra even in this episode which was all about him!)]] stores the latinum from a bank heist he took part in years ago in one of his stomachs, which is why his hair fell out.

** Another ''{{Inu Yasha}}'' example; in the very first episode, Kagome had the Shikon No Tama (Sacred Jewel) inside her body. The reason for this is that Kagome is the reincarnation of Kikyo, who, 50 years ago in Feudal Japan, instructed her little sister Kaede to put the jewel in her dying body then burn her up, to avoid any further posession of the Sacred Jewel.

* In ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]'', the Nameless One can ask several characters to...remove, or otherwise modify, his body parts, like his eyeball, or even his intestines. This results in items being found, and often a stat increase (though it also inflicts significant damage). One specific case involves a previous incarnation storing useful items inside his ribcage, to be found only after finding the requisite clues.

* ''{{Literature/Friday}}''. The title character has a pouch implanted behind her belly button that can hold a small object. She often uses it while acting as a courier. At the beginning of the book she's carrying a vitally important message from the Moon to Earth.

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[[caption-width-right:350:So ''that's'' where you hid the family jewels!]]

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the [[ArtifactOfDoom Hougyoku]] was hidden inside [[spoiler: Rukia]]'s soul.

* In ''{{Underworld}}'' the vampire elders Viktor and Amelia had the components for the key to William's tomb surgically placed in their chests.

* [[color:red:(Please Confirm)]] The Creature in the "Dragonfire" episode of the Seventh ''DoctorWho''. The power source that would let Kane leave Svartos is concealed inside it.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler:Rukia]] had the Orb of Distortion hidden inside their soul.

* ''TheFifthElement'' (Film): The Stones (the film's MacGuffin) are hidden inside the body of [[spoiler: Diva Plavalaguna]].

* One of the most basic uses of fleshcrafting discipline in ''VampireTheMasquerade.''
* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement ''Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia''. The god Druaga was said to store his soul object in a human being. If Druaga's corporeal form is destroyed, the person will die. After the person is buried, the soul object will create a new form for Druaga in the person's grave.

* Bender of ''{{Futurama}}'' can hide all kinds of stuff inside his robot body.
* On ''HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'', Orko would often pull things out of the O on the front of his robe.
* In an episode of ''JackieChanAdventures'', Jackie unknowingly had the map to a treasure inserted inside one of his dental fillings by a crooked orthodontist.
* In a ''SherlockHolmes In The 22nd Century'' episode based upon "The Five Orange Pips", a dangerous weapon is concealed inside the chamber of a man's artificial heart, and Prof. Moriarty seeks to retrieve it. Subverted in that said weapon is by then quite old and worth more as a museum piece than a tool of destruction.
* On ''XiaolinShowdown'', The [[McGuffin Yin Jojo]] (or was it Yan?) was hidden inside Dojo's Ear.

* In a rather bizarre version, Christopher Walken's part in ''PulpFiction'' keeps a pocket watch up his arse to give it to a the son of the son of the last owner.

* In an episode of ''SheSpies,'' the girls are hunting a thief. As it turns out, what she stole was an experimental artificial heart that she needed to stay alive. An even bigger shocker, her boyfriend was actually a bounty hunter, hired to bring her in and return the heart. At one point, he actually describes it as "an honest-to-God treasure buried in a chest."

This trope is about using a person as a walking Safe. Despite the name, the treasure can be hidden in other body parts. In some instances the hidden item may be parked inside the person's {{Soul}} as if in a spiritual {{Hammerspace}}. Taking the item out may require surgery (hopefully PsychicSurgery to avoid ScarsAreForever).

* On ''XiaolinShowdown'', The [[McGuffin Yin Jojo]](or was it Yan) was hidden inside Dojo's Ear.